Cronenberg Family Values: Scanners (1981)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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After spending 2 weeks covering two uniquely American horror flicks, Nightmare on Film Street is setting its sights north on Canada's Body Horror godfather, Mr. David Cronenberg. Join your horror hosts Jon & Kim as they celebrate the lasting legacy of cinema's gooiest exploding head and Michael Ironside's villainous performance in 1981's Scanners. It's a rip-roaring good time filled with bloody noses, creepy synths, and psychic fights! Joinn usss..
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:06.0 | The current time is 666. Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife. |
| 0:14.0 | But it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | For the next hour, you're on Nightmare Time. |
| 0:21.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello again, Fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:33.0 | Horror for the Casually Obsessed. I'm Kim. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm John. |
| 0:37.0 | And this week, we're diving in to the Kronenberg family values with Scanners from 1981. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, Scanners, David Kronenberg classic, the movie that got him video drum. |
| 0:50.0 | I think the movie that kind of really put him on the map. |
| 0:53.0 | Like, he was kind of an indie horror darling in Canada. |
| 0:57.0 | And, you know, definitely like the cult crowd appreciated him. |
| 1:00.0 | I think he was huge in Europe at the time. |
| 1:02.0 | Like, they really responded to his movies. |
| 1:05.0 | But he hadn't really broken into the American cinema scene yet. |
| 1:09.0 | Scanners is the movie that made him a household name for people who like weird shit. |
| 1:14.0 | A household name for weird households. |
| 1:16.0 | We kind of wanted to call this initially something about regarding blind spots. |
| 1:19.0 | Because John and I, for this mini series, this little head to head, |
| 1:24.0 | each chose a movie that the other wasn't too familiar with. |
| 1:28.0 | And this is John's pick. |
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